Francisco Aragón's guest appearances

Francisco Aragón

Poetry Lectures

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers

Poetry Centered

Seamus Heaney

Pico Iyer

Robert Frost

Marjorie Perloff

Brian Greene

Elizabeth Bishop

William Carlos Williams

Kwame Dawes

T.C. Boyle

Don Paterson

Billy Collins

Matthew Zapruder

Hanif Abdurraqib

Philip Levine

Mary Karr

OwlTail

Francisco Aragón shares poems alive with the vibrancy of a particular voice addressed to a particular audience. He introduces Francisco X. Alarcón’s bittersweet homage to a poetic ancestor (“Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón”), Thom Gunn’s farewell address to a beloved fellow writer (“To Isherwood Dying”), and Denise Levertov’s mythic, ecstatic monologue on transformation (“A Tree Telling of Orpheus”). Aragón concludes the episode with a direct address of his own that challenges Arizona’s SB 1070 (“Poem with a Phrase of Isherwood”). Listen to the full recordings of Alarcón, Gunn, and Levertov reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:Francisco X. Alarcón (2008)Thom Gunn (1986)Denise Levertov (1973)

<a href="http://www.franciscoaragon.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Francisco Aragón</a> shares poems alive with the vibrancy of a particular voice addressed to a particular audience. He introduces Francisco X. Alarcón’s bittersweet homage to a poetic ancestor (“Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón”), Thom Gunn’s farewell address to a beloved fellow writer (“To Isherwood Dying”), and Denise Levertov’s mythic, ecstatic monologue on transformation (“A Tree Telling of Orpheus”). Aragón concludes the episode with a direct address of his own that challenges Arizona’s SB 1070 (“Poem with a Phrase of Isherwood”). Listen to the full recordings of Alarcón, Gunn, and Levertov reading for the Poetry Center on Voca: <a href="https://voca.arizona.edu/reading/francisco-x-alarcon-february-7-2008" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Francisco X. Alarcón (2008)</a> <a href="https://voca.arizona.edu/reading/thom-gunn-september-10-1986" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thom Gunn (1986)</a> <a href="https://voca.arizona.edu/reading/denise-levertov-october-9-1973" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denise Levertov (1973)</a>

Francisco Aragón: A Speaking Voice

Poet Francisco Aragón is doing is doing more for U.S. Latinx literature than any person I know. While writing his own work, he’s also always pushing and promoting the literary works of others, namely, the new Latinx writers on the block. He’s the son of Nicaraguan immigrants, born and raised in San Francisco, CA. He directs Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, where he’s been faculty member since 2003. He’s one of those activists who are in it for the long run, who does not tire of shaking the world awake to the beautiful writing coming out of our Latin American-American worlds.

Poet Francisco Aragón is doing is doing more for U.S. Latinx literature than any person I know. While writing his own work, he’s also always pushing and promoting the literary works of others, namely, the new Latinx writers on the block. He’s the son of Nicaraguan immigrants, born and raised in San Francisco, CA. He directs Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, where he’s been faculty member since 2003. He’s one of those activists who are in it for the long run, who does not tire of shaking the world awake to the beautiful writing coming out of our Latin American-American worlds.

Francisco Aragón: Literary Activist

Brenda Cárdenas

The first half of a 2008 reading featuring four Latino poets, as part of the American Perspectives series at the Art Institute of Chicago.﻿

The first half of a 2008 reading featuring four Latino poets, as part of the American Perspectives series at the Art Institute of Chicago.﻿

Francisco Aragón and Brenda Cárdenas